1.   A leading presidential aide was reported to have admitted that irregularities had occurred in some areas, which he attributed to a political culture that is hard to eradicate.

2.   At each stop, he talked with the presiding officer and asked a series of questions intended to determine whether any irregularities had occurred.

3.   But even if a court were to find that irregularities occurred, the tougher task would be to fashion a remedy.

4.   It is not known, for example, whether breathing stops first or heartbeat irregularities occur first.

5.   Most scoffed that the irregularities occurred at the transit police union, not theirs.

6.   Similar irregularities occurred in Tepeaca, the seat of an election district in Puebla.

7.   The accounting irregularities occurred in inventory valuation, Mataya said.

8.   The Gore campaign has also sought to have ballots counted by hand in four counties where it contends that serious irregularities may have occurred.

9.   The law firm has engaged a forensic accounting team from Arthur Andersen to investigate how the accounting irregularities occurred and who may have been responsible.

10.   The state courts might, of course, hold that appearances are deceiving and that no fatal irregularities occurred.